The Corporeal Imagination : Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity [1 ed.] 9780812204681, 9780812241426

The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity 9780812204681

Focusing on saintly human bodies as relics, animated icons, and performers of the holy in hagiography, this book analyze

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Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination 9780520931015

This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusi

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In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity 9780812295221

In the Eye of the Animal: Zoological Imagination in Ancient Christianity complicates the role of animals in early Christ

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Children in Late Ancient Christianity 3161502353, 9783161502354, 9783161513572

Social, cultural, theological, and economic presentations of children offer important clues to understanding the develop

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The Garb of Being: Embodiment and the Pursuit of Holiness in Late Ancient Christianity 9780823287048

This collection of essays explores how the body became a touchstone for late antique practice and religious imagination

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Thorns in the Flesh: Illness and Sanctity in Late Ancient Christianity 9780812207200

In Thorns in the Flesh, Andrew Crislip explores late ancient Christian reflections on the meaning and value of illness i

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Mirrors of the Divine Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God 9780197663394, 9780197663370

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Mirrors of the Divine: Late Ancient Christianity and the Vision of God 2022040724, 2022040725, 9780197663370, 0197663370

Mirrors of the Divine brings into focus how four influential authors of the late ancient world--Tertullian of Carthage,

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Scenting salvation: ancient Christianity and the olfactory imagination 9780520287563, 9780520241473, 9780520931015

This book explores the role of bodily, sensory experience in early Christianity (first – seventh centuries AD) by focusi

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Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World 9780812201574

Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of

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